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Isaiah Taylor

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

And then they got into the Falcon 9 and now they're building Starship.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

I think that we're going to follow a very similar track here where over time, I believe our reactors will slowly get larger.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

But the first thing to do is you have to make sort of a minimum viable thing that your team can build and can build quickly and learn lessons.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

It's all about learning.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

We really are having to reinvent nuclear.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

We can't just take the designs that we had in the 1960s.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

Those designs don't work anymore for a few reasons.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

It's not that they technologically don't work.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

It's that they economically don't work.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

We don't have the tool chains and the labor to do massive engineering projects and massive construction projects anymore.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

This is something we were really, really good at in the 50s and 60s.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

As a country, as a civilization, we were great at building large civil infrastructure.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

Over time, we got worse at that.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

We can talk about why, but the fact is we got worse at that and we got better at manufacturing.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

if you're going to bring nuclear back today i believe that the form factor of your reactor should be reflective of that change where you're going toward more smaller manufactured things rather than these like really big civil works projects so the short answer is like you start small and you move quickly and you learn fast with smart people and that's exactly what we're doing interesting yeah interesting one more thing everybody gets a gift

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

I was going to say, legal in all 50 states.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

That makes it sound like it maybe shouldn't have been legal.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

But are these like CBD or something like that?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

Nice.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

Let's go.